“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” (George Clooney)
When you are engaged in a conversation with another person, what percentage of that time are you speaking and what percentage spent in listening?
In these times of turbulence and uncertainty, I think it behooves us to become better listeners. More people are hurting in our society today than possibly ever in our history. A greater percentage of people are unemployed today than during the Great Depression.
Although you and I may not have a solution to someone’s suffering, the mere act of genuine listening certainly brings comfort. Now is the time to be “our brother’s and sister’s keeper.”
One of the best things we can do now is to seek out someone who is ill or unemployed and ask him or her how it’s going.
If not today, when?
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